Introduction
The Tele-consultation product of company MphRx is called Minerva and it has been available since 2010. The solution providers value cost reduction the most . Their business model is B2B, and also have white labelled products. They provide both mobile (android and iOS) applications for the doctors. They also provide mobile applications for patient and/or web based patient portals.
Size of Healthcare Provider
The solution is useful for the following categories of healthcare providers:
a) Clinics
b) Nursing Home/Small Hospital (less than 100 beds)
c) Large Hospital
Level of Specialization
The solution can be used in the following settings of specialisation of clinical services:
a) Tertiary care
Expert Panel Evaluation
This teleconsultation solution provides facility to doctors to interact with patients in only synchronous manner. The solution provides multimode interaction i.e., audio and video. Doctors could interact with patients using audio and video calls. In order to take detailed notes, doctors have to close the video screen and then record diagnosis and assessment. This solution could enable basic clinical workflow in terms of writing subjective details and objective clinical diagnosis along with assessment and planning; including writing treatment/medication and other investigations as and when required. Doctors can take private notes. Doctor could edit notes during consultation, and 30 min post consultation. E-signature and digital signature integration is possible.
Formulary of drugs provided by the hospitals is used only for generating prescription for consultation. Providers shared that third party integration with the hospital HIS is done and follows FHIR standards for communication. This solution provides APIs that could be integrated in hospital HIS.
Patient’s control over data is decided at the hospital. This solution facilitates consent for every consultation.
Solution Maturity Level
a) TPG compliant: 3b
b) Feature complexity: 4 (Partial)